1. Peter Barkworth twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor; for Crown Matrimonial in 1975 and for Professional Foul and The Country Party in 1978.
22 Facts About Peter Barkworth
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Peter Barkworth starred in the ITV series Manhunt and the BBC series Telford's Change.
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Peter Barkworth was born 14 January 1929 in Margate, Kent.
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Peter Barkworth's headmaster wanted him to go to university but Barkworth had set his heart on a career in acting.
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Peter Barkworth spent the next few years in repertory in Folkestone, with the Arthur Brough company, and in Sheffield.
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Peter Barkworth is perhaps best remembered for playing Mark Telford in the TV series Telford's Change, watched every week by seven million viewers.
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Peter Barkworth co-starred with Hannah Gordon, with Keith Barron as her seducer.
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Peter Barkworth twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor, in 1975 for Crown Matrimonial and in 1978 for his roles in Professional Foul and The Country Party.
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Peter Barkworth's character in the 1965 boardroom drama The Power Game was a recurring role.
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Peter Barkworth appeared in the 1970s series The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Martin Hewitt.
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Peter Barkworth featured in an episode of sci-fi drama Undermind, and the dystopian The Guardians, and starred in the mystery mini-series Melissa as an out of work writer whose wife goes missing.
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Peter Barkworth played the expatriate British novelist Hugh Neville in the episodes Guilt and Lost Sheep of Secret Army.
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Back on the stage, Peter Barkworth appeared in numerous plays in the West End, notably as Edward VIII in Royce Ryton's Crown Matrimonial starring alongside Wendy Hiller at the Haymarket Theatre in 1972, a role which he repeated on TV two years later.
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Peter Barkworth played this role in 1975, being nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance in 1976.
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Peter Barkworth devised a one-man show based on the work of Siegfried Sassoon.
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Peter Barkworth had subsequent roles in No Love for Johnnie, Two a Penny, Where Eagles Dare, Patton, Escape from the Dark, International Velvet and Champions.
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Peter Barkworth was a member of the Council at RADA for 16 years during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Peter Barkworth edited For All Occasions: A Selection of Poems, Prose and Party Pieces.
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Peter Barkworth was an avid collector of mainly British art.
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Peter Barkworth left his collection of paintings to the National Trust and they are displayed at Fenton House in Hampstead.
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Peter Barkworth lived in Hampstead for many years, and died at the Royal Free Hospital in London of bronchopneumonia 10 days after suffering a stroke.
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Peter Barkworth was survived by his partner, David Wyn Jones.